Comics Briefly: 10/05/2010

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons
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Oct 05, 2010

San Diego Comic-Con Stays in San Diego

A question which has been on the minds of comics professionals and California city planners alike has just been settled – Comic-Con International has announced that San Diego Comic-Con will be remaining in San Diego, at least for the next five years. The con, which is the largest civillian convention of any kind in the United States, has been in talks with Los Angeles and Anaheim among other cities for the last year considering alternate venues. Considerations included hotel rates and the amount of convention space and hotel rooms available; Comic-Con memberships sell out months in advance and the convention cannot grow without a larger home. Now a contract has been agreed upon, but only for the next five years. More details are available here, in an article at the San Diego Tribune.

Layoffs and Rumors at DC Comics

DC Comics, which has been undergoing huge upheavals since the announcement two weeks ago that its Zuda and Wildstorm were being shut down and segements of the company were being relocated to California, has unsurprisingly begun to lay off some members of the staff. Confirmed are the departures of Vertigo editors Joan Hilty, Pornsak Pichetshote and Jonathan Vankin, as detailed in Heidi MacDonald's The Beat here. Robot 6 and Bleeding Cool weigh in on the subject here and here.

PW Comics Week at NYCC

Once again, PW Comics Week will be making a live appearance at the New York Comic Con. Come by Booth #534 to try for the fabulous prizes of our free raffle and as chance to say hello to your favorite newsletter writers and editors.

New York Comic Con and New York Anime Festival (now combined into one event) is October 8-10 at New York City's Javits Convention Center. Guests and events include Stan Lee, and a special presentation from the creator's behind AMC's new comic adaptation zombie series The Walking Dead, Brian Michael Bendis, Amanda Conner, Peter David, Darwyn Cooke, Gail Simone, Jane Yolen and many more. The con is open from 1 – 7 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, and admission ranges from $30 for Friday or Sunday entrance to $50 for the weekend, with children 12 and under entering free on Sunday. The Jacob Javits Convention Center is located at 655 West 34th Street, New York, NY.

‘Ulysses Seen’ Looks to Raise Funds on Kickstarter

Beginning this week, Ulysses Seen, the Web comic adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, is also a Kickstarter Project. Created and adapted by cartoonist Robert Berry and his cohorts at Throwaway Horse LLC, an online venture to turn “literary masterworks” into accessible web comics, Ulysses Seen offers readers not only a visual recreation of Joyce’s commanding novel, but an online reader’s guide created by Joyce scholar Mike Barsanti. The Readers Guide offers historical context, definitions and a scholar’s insight into every page of the Web comic. Berry is only completed the first chapter of the book and Throwaway Horse is launching a Kickstarter Project to raise funds ($6,300) to assist in the completion of the work. “With your support, Rob Berry can draw the comic full time over the next several months rather than interrupt his drawing with waiting tables; we can defray the basic costs of production; and we can devote more resources to developing the site as web-based community.” The deadline for raising the money is Dec. 4.

Seth Kushner at the Graphic NYC blog has a review of the new special exhibition of work from Inverna Lockpez's graphic novel autobiography Cuba, My Revolution. The exhibitincludes the premiere of six of the original artworks by the author that got her arrested in 1960's Cuba and PWCW's own Calvin Reid moderated the public Artist's Talk with Lockpez and Haspiel at the exhibit's opening last Saturday. “Cuba, My Revolution”, the exhibit, is hosted at the Kentler International Art Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn from October 2 – December 12. The Kentler is located at 353 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY and admission is always free.

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